The Journal

Notes kept against the data.

Everything here is written from the network's own booking data: live rates, the properties' own listings, and our price research. No filler; if the data doesn't say it, we don't write it.

• Entry № 2 · 2026-08-21 · 3 min

  Priced on the same basis

  We compared 47,298 room-nights against a signed-in Booking.com Genius session across 146 cities, every tax counted on both sides, on dates the comparison was never tuned for. Members paid less on 97% of room-nights, a median of 10% less.

• Entry № 1 · 2026-07-28 · 3 min

  When Ibiza goes to sleep

  We priced the same forty hotels for every week of autumn. The island gets cheaper, then quieter, then it closes almost entirely. Here is the week to catch it mid-yawn.